I demand that Raphael Hertzog may or may not have written... > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:58:29PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : >>> Since dpkg 1.14.17, dpkg-buildpackage will define the environment >>> variables CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS and FFLAGS. The goal is to >>> be able to easily recompile packages with supplementary compilation flags >>> and to simplify the debian/rules files since CFLAGS has the right default >>> value (no need to special case for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt).
>> When do you recommend to drop the support for this option? I personally >> like to keep debian/rules minimal. Do we need to wait for a Policy >> update? > I would not yet update the rules files. [...] I'd rather that this just got left in debian/rules, where it belongs: xine-lib, for example, needs more than just -O0 for disabling optimisations. Then there are the times when I find it useful to run "debian/rules build" or something similar... -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + At least 4000 million too many people. POPULATION LEVEL IS UNSUSTAINABLE. I'd like to, but I'm going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise.
